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The two-day Boston Calling Music Festival returned to City Hall Plaza after May's inaugural event.

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Security was tightened because of recent drug overdoses at concerts in Boston and New York, organizers said.

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Tickets were still available Saturday evening for Sunday's performances.

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Local Natives will head on to St. Louis for LouFest. Pictured: Lead singer Taylor Rice.

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The Gaslight Anthem was one of the acts to perform at the festival.

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Vampire Weekend concluded Saturday along with The Gaslight Anthem. Pictured: Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend.

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Bearstronaut performed during the festival's second day. Pictured: David Martineau.

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Royal Teeth got the crowd to sing along.

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Ben Shipley of New York City and Blair Nodelman of Albuquerque, N.M., were at City Hall Plaza on Sunday.

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Big Black Delta's next performance is Sept. 17 in Los Angeles. Pictured: Lead singer Jonathan Bates.

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Fans enjoyed the music of Major Lazer during their performance Sunday.

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Diplo (right) and Walshy Fire of Major Lazer got the crowd going.

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A huge crowd gathered to watch rapper Kendrick Lamar perform.

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Lamar will perform Monday at Brooklyn's Williamsburg Park.

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Homegrown group Passion Pit was one of the headlining acts. The other was Vampire Weekend. Pictured: Lead singer Michael Angelakos.

patriots 23, bills 21

Patriots start season with shaky win

“I thought they made the plays at the end of the game that they needed to win. That’s what it’s about,” coach Bill Belichick said.

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Patriots’ offense inefficient in defeating Bills

The Patriots needed a field goal with seconds remaining to take a 23-21 win after turning the ball over three times during the game.

Syrians make pleas to members of Congress

Both supporters and opponents of a punitive military strike against President Bashar Assad are sending messages to lawmakers’ offices.

3 sought in beating of BU student

The victim is a 27-year-old veteran of the Navy who transferred to the school this fall, according to his brother.

Charlotte Golar Richie talks issues of race on MSNBC

The mayoral candidate also pitched herself as “uniquely qualified for this position” during her appearance on Sunday.

Yankees 4, Red Sox 3

Red Sox fall on wild pitch in the ninth inning

A series between two old rivals that featured 66 runs on 94 hits over four frenzied days of baseball ended with a loss for the Red Sox.

$Jacoby Ellsbury has been diagnosed with a compression fracture in his right foot.$

Ellsbury should be back before end of the season, Farrell says

Jacoby Ellsbury has been diagnosed with a compression fracture in his right foot, but Red Sox manager John Farrell said the team feels like “he’ll return this year.”

Opinion

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Can Boston break identity politics?

There is still time for the mayoral candidates to set out individual agendas and give the voters more reasons to support them.

Globe exclusives

John Burbine, 49, is awaiting trial on charges that he videotaped himself sexually abusing 13 children in his wife’s unlicensed day-care business between 2010 and 2012. He is also charged in a Saugus case.

Safeguards failed, so evil got another chance

Dee Morell, an X-ray technician from New Jersey, has been unable to work since November. She developed an infection after getting a tainted shot in her left hip for arthritis.

Pain, questions linger, a year after meningitis outbreak

The Rev. Sean Connor spoke with parents at Sacred Heart Elementary inWeymouth on the first day of school.

Priest offered comfort in family’s darkest days

Josh Groban has sold 25 million albums in his classical crossover career.

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Josh Groban all he’s cracked up to be

Globe Magazine | Fall Travel

Top 5 travel mistakes

Matt Bausone (left) and Eric Folks in “columbinus,’’ a production of the Chicago-based American Theater Company to be presented by ArtsEmerson Sept. 17-29.

fall theater preview

Questions of belonging will reverberate on local stages

“I was super-excited. It was a great feeling,” Rob Ninkovich said of his first NFL opening day. “I wish I could go back in time and get it again.”

Sunday Football Notes

Opening Day memorable for NFL players

Araba Taylor used her smartphone to set up interviews for the one-year fellowship she landed at the Center for EcoTechnology, an environmental nonprofit.

Recruitment technology lags

fall movies preview

Big trouble ahead onscreen

The Tigers would love to see Drew Smyly make their rotation.

Sunday Baseball Notes

Some MLB teams may need some space

Parth Patel, Matt Kaighn, John Bennett, and Martin Story enjoyed a beer at the bar in the newly renovated Forum Bar and Restaurant.

Quick bite

Forum reopens with revelry

Groups of young sailors try their racing skills in Newport Harbor as part of their Sail Newport instruction. In the background is the Claiborne Pell Bridge spanning the East Passage of Narragansett Bay.

Aerodynamics and fun, learned aboard a sailboat

Fall Arts Preview

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2013 Fall Arts Preview

As the weather cools, the season heats up. Here’s your guide to the best in theater, dance, art, music, and more.

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Daniel F. Conley wants a citywide vote on the Suffolk Downs casino proposal and says city councilors should be holding community meetings across the city.

Daniel Conley pushes for citywide hearings on casino

The Boston mayoral candidate also doubled-down on his calls for a citywide vote on the proposed East Boston facility.

Sports

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US Open

Serena Williams wins 17th Grand Slam title

Top-seeded Williams beat Victoria Azarenka in a windy final to also win her fifth US Open championship title.

Metro

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Karen Yianopoulos stood where a headstone will be placed for her uncle at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

Woman gets headstone for uncle killed in World War II

Karen Yianopoulos’s persistence resulted in her late uncle, Seaman Third Class Peter Yianopoulos, receiving a headstone at Arlington National Cemetery.